David Greenhalgh Jessel was born on 8 November 1945 and is a British former TV and radio news presenter, author, and campaigner against miscarriages of justice.
17 Facts About David Jessel
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David Jessel is the son of Robert Jessel, a former defence correspondent of The Times, and Dame Penelope Jessel, and the brother of journalist Stephen Jessel.
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David Jessel was born in Abingdon and educated at the Dragon School, an independent school in Oxford, and at Eton College, to which he won a scholarship in 1959.
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David Jessel won an Exhibition to Merton College, Oxford, where he read Modern History.
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David Jessel was secretary of the University's Dramatic Society, OUDS.
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David Jessel joined the BBC in 1967 on a trainee placement at BBC Birmingham, rising to become a presenter of the regional news programmes on television and radio.
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Early in 1968, Jessel moved to London to join the national radio news programme The World at One as one of the so-called "golden generation" of young British journalists, which included Roger Cook and Jonathan Dimbleby.
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David Jessel resigned from The World at One in 1972 to join BBC 1's nightly TV current affairs programme, 24 Hours.
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In October 1973, David Jessel temporarily left the BBC to join commercial radio, becoming the opening presenter on LBC, Britain's first all-news radio station.
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On rejoining the BBC, David Jessel moved to documentary-making, with a particular emphasis on miscarriages of justice.
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From 2000 to 2010, David Jessel was a commissioner of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, an independent public body set up to investigate possible miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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David Jessel had been a prominent supporter and advocate of such an independent public body for many years prior to its creation.
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Since 2004, David Jessel has been a regular anchor on BBC World News, as well as a guest presenter on the channel's flagship interview programme HARDtalk.
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David Jessel has served on the Advertising Standards Authority's advisory council, and is a member of the Code Compliance Tribunal of PhonePay+ regulating telephone premium-rate services.
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David Jessel currently sits on the Complaints Board of the independent press regulator IPSO.
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David Jessel has a son and daughter, and two children from his first marriage.
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David Jessel wrote Trial and Error, a book to accompany the Channel 4 television series.